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...tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Geneviève at the insane asylum and a levelheaded, strong...
...just a variant of New Deal recklessness." But ardently pro-Eisenhower papers also expressed concern that Ike's philosophy was shifting to the left. Many conservatives, said the pro-Ike Dallas Times-Herald last week, "fear that Eisenhower believes the only way the Republican Party can prosper is by outdoing the Democrats in so-called liberalism...
...truth must rule all we think and all we do. No people can live to itself alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence-makes isolation an impossibility; not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people seeking such shelter for themselves can now build only their prison...
...Belle Helens (1864) and Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell...
...drama for seven years after the HDC had abandoned it, but then Baker accepted a position at Yale. After World War II, the HDC did form a Reading Theater which presented about six undergraduate plays a year in the large lecture room in Fogg. But this group did not prosper, and in 1953 the HDC made another attempt...